HNminus

Thursday, 06 August 2026

• Spin audit of SQD/QSCI quantum-chemistry benchmarks on iron–sulfur clusters
  zenodo.org · Discuss

• Welcoming the Nepalese Government to Have I Been Pwned
  troyhunt.com · Discuss

• Inside vLLM: Anatomy of a High-Throughput LLM Inference System (2025)
  aleksagordic.com · Discuss

• Bioengineered chewing gum may offer a way to fight HPV and other microbes
  sciencedaily.com · Discuss

• Civilians under siege by Mexican cartel fight back with AK-47s, grenades
  pbs.org · Discuss

• Astronomers capture highest-resolution image ever of the Sun's surface
  physicsworld.com · Discuss

• AMD acquires Taalas to boost inference performance by etching models in silicon
  theregister.com · Discuss

• Quake – 30th Anniversary Update
  slayersclub.bethesda.net · Discuss

• State-oriented consistency: Why we stopped looking for one right answer
  keel-iot.eu · Discuss

• The DISTINCT in Your COUNT
  boringsql.com · Discuss

• xAI, SpaceX, and the Race for AI Buildout
  illegal.solutions · Discuss

• Japanese Govt Asks US Govt to Stop Using Mario, Pokemono, Naruto Meme Postings
  mainichi.jp · Discuss

• Herdr is joining Y Combinator. The runtime stays open
  herdr.dev · Discuss

• Can you reverse engineer an ASIC?
  blog.janestreet.com · Discuss

• Qwen3.8 Max now ranked as the best overall model by agentic index
  artificialanalysis.ai · Discuss

• Unions Can Save Tech Workers and Tech Work
  jacobin.com · Discuss

• My phone detects going on a run as “someone snatching my phone and running off”
  mastodon.gamedev.place · Discuss

• Federal Communications Commission scraps limit on broadcast TV ownership
  nbcnews.com · Discuss

• Improving GPT‑5.6 Sol in ChatGPT, expanding GPT‑5.6 Luna access for free users
  openai.com · Discuss

• Taste Is All That's Left
  notashelf.dev · Discuss

• GitHub Is Experiencing Difficulties
  githubstatus.com · Discuss

• Dress made of living mycelium can renew and repair itself
  dezeen.com · Discuss

• Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
  nashvillebanner.com · Discuss

• Show HN: Silo – S3-compatible object storage, a maintained fork of MinIO
  silo.pgsty.com · Discuss

• Launch HN: ProvenMetal (YC S26) delivers circuit boards in days instead of weeks
  provenmetal.com · Discuss

• GitHub Actions and Pages are experiencing degraded availability
  githubstatus.com · Discuss

• Almost no skill required to cook a steak
  blog.sydorets.com · Discuss

• The End of No Code
  blog.exe.dev · Discuss

• Show HN: I spent 2 years designing a mechanical Magic Keyboard
  electronicmaterialsoffice.com · Discuss

• Former Federal Prosecutors to Senate: Stop Confirming Election Deniers as Judges
  abovethelaw.com · Discuss

• Degrees of Wealth
  jaapgrolleman.com · Discuss

• DeepSeek planning to significantly raise prices
  platform.deepseek.com · Discuss

• I added a real-time chat to my blog, people used it to attack me
  en.andros.dev · Discuss

• American farmers slid solar panels over 62,000 acres of farmland
  energiesmedia.com · Discuss

• Four simple rules behind Japan's most liveable cities
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Humans missed 1 in 3 threats approving AI agent commands across 40k game runs
  scalex.dev · Discuss

• Show HN: demake – one source project compiles to any retro game console ROM
  geosona.com · Discuss

• Mario Meets Pareto
  mayerowitz.io · Discuss

• What I love about Django
  buttondown.com · Discuss

Wednesday, 05 August 2026

• Let's all meet up in the Y2K
  blog.gingerbeardman.com · Discuss

• Crime Pays but Botany Doesn't
  crimepaysbutbotanydoesnt.com · Discuss

• Governments are making a dangerous bet on the AI boom
  economist.com · Discuss

• Nashville uses eminent domain to block data center near zoo
  costar.com · Discuss

• Virginia Orders Data Centers to Pay for Dedicated New Electric Infrastructure
  realtor.com · Discuss

• LLMs won't break symmetric crypto
  bfswa.blog · Discuss

• The title cards in Blade Runner are amazing
  randsinrepose.com · Discuss

• Nvidia’s Vera Whitepaper Has a Thread Loose
  chipsandcheese.com · Discuss

• Prime Agent: A self-improving RLM agent
  primeintellect.ai · Discuss

• OpenAI says my prepaid credits were consumed, refuses to show any record
  community.openai.com · Discuss

• I'm switching my phone from Android to Linux
  runarcn.no · Discuss

• Muse Code and Muse Spark 1.2
  research.meta.ai · Discuss

• Sula: A Gemini protocol server written in Scryer Prolog
  sagredo.dev · Discuss

• Zed DeltaDB
  zed.dev · Discuss

• What happens if you put work into the second dimension?
  norbertkozsir.com · Discuss

• Born Against, or why hobby programming communities are against LLM usage
  blog.fogus.me · Discuss

• Beating GPT-5.6 Sol on retrieval with 100x cheaper open models
  neon.com · Discuss

• Sycophantic AI Decreases Prosocial Intentions and Promotes Dependence (2025)
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Antigravity 2.0
  antigravity.google · Discuss

• Atlassian Rovo Exfiltrates Data, Bypassing Controls
  promptarmor.com · Discuss

• Phishers are hijacking legitimate cloud infrastructure
  securelist.com · Discuss

• AI is a bubble, just like dot-com
  constraintlab.com · Discuss

• Launch HN: HyperProbe (YC S26) – Agents that do read-only debugging in prod
  hyperprobe.co · Discuss

• I’m leaving OpenAI to build telepathy
  naomibashkansky.com · Discuss

• Stop sending me your errors
  kramkow.ski · Discuss

• Something is changing in the unit economics of software
  nicolo.xyz · Discuss

• Discovery Loop
  discoveryloop.com · Discuss

• Google DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis is stepping down
  axios.com · Discuss

• Changes at Google DeepMind: Demis Hassabis from CEO to Chair, Jeff Dean departs
  blog.google · Discuss

• Tiny black holes may be exploding stars across the Milky Way
  sciencedaily.com · Discuss

• Scientists discover Kelvin-Helmholtz Instability on the surface of the Sun
  nso.edu · Discuss

• The Valley of Webhooks
  weli.dev · Discuss

• Cops Used Flock to Track a Man Across State Lines for a Pretextual Weed Search
  404media.co · Discuss

• Google Assistant is going away on Mobile Devices
  images.seroundtable.com · Discuss

• International Revenue Share Fraud (IRSF)
  knock-knock.net · Discuss

• Qwen 3.0 Image Pro
  qwencloud.com · Discuss

• Oracle cut its Always Free ARM limits to 2 OCPU / 12GB, enforced Aug 18
  cnelecar.com · Discuss

• The "Disability Dongle": Why Silicon Valley Hates Me and You
  sightlessscribbles.com · Discuss

• Aristotle quotes on virtue, knowledge, and happiness
  campion.edu.au · Discuss

• Show HN: Vocab Top – AI-powered vocabulary builder that helps you retain words
  vocab.top · Discuss

• Rubin Observatory's first LSST Camera release: 500k galaxies in the COSMOS field
  rubinobservatory.org · Discuss

• Intelligence Is Not the Main Bottleneck
  writingruxandrabio.com · Discuss

• TSON – A JSON superset with immutable, hash-pinned schemas
  tson.io · Discuss

• Cloudflare OS: an open platform for agents, apps, and work
  blog.cloudflare.com · Discuss

• Silicon Valley sees AI as the solution – for everyone else
  observer.co.uk · Discuss

• Not hiring junior engineers won't solve the problem you think you have
  franciscotrindade.me · Discuss

• Building an Advanced Agentic Harness
  data4sci.com · Discuss

• Painting with Gaussians
  yogthos.net · Discuss

• Faster Than Ninja
  build2.org · Discuss

• Google's HTTP/2 codec slows Envoy
  apoxy.dev · Discuss

• KTX Images Converter for WebGL/GPU and Threejs
  ktxconverter.robertborghesi.is · Discuss

• Iowa-led states ask OpenAI to keep their bots on a leash
  iowaattorneygeneral.gov · Discuss

• TIME Is Serving AI Bots a Different Website, with Ads Built In
  vincentschmalbach.com · Discuss

• Anthropic AI created fake profiles and impersonated people in attempted hack
  bbc.co.uk · Discuss

• Three Six Mafia – Data about "6/6/6 dating" (2024)
  divingintheshallowend.com · Discuss

• Why Erdős Problems Are Falling to AI
  quantamagazine.org · Discuss

• Could psilocybin be the key to treating anorexia?
  scientificamerican.com · Discuss

• Position: LLMs Can't Jump
  openreview.net · Discuss

• No Data Centers in My Backyard
  jasmi.news · Discuss

• The software group Palantir paid just £2M in corporation tax in the UK in 2024
  theguardian.com · Discuss

• Helsinki Hacker News Meetup
  calpaterson.com · Discuss

Tuesday, 04 August 2026

• Rust-lang/rust is adopting an LLM policy
  blog.rust-lang.org · Discuss

• The sale of Electronic Arts has been finalized
  bbc.com · Discuss

• Zero-Mem: Zero-Token Memory Operations for LLM Agents
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• The auto industry is building for a past that's never coming back
  wardsauto.com · Discuss

• After Losses, Retail Investors Flock to 3x Leverage as 2x Product Are Restricted
  asiae.co.kr · Discuss

• Gallium: Why the US Cannot Produce Precision Missiles and Fully-Functional F-35s
  sonar21.com · Discuss

• Zigbee vs. Matter over Thread:Understanding IoT Protocol Performance in Practice
  arxiv.org · Discuss

• Bugtraq is back
  lists.securityfocus.com · Discuss

• Flowise is shutting down
  flowiseai.com · Discuss

• Eight Myths on Software Engineering and GenAI
  queue.acm.org · Discuss

• IP and DNS Leaks in WebKit Affecting Proxy Browsers and iCloud Private Relay
  mysk.blog · Discuss

• Pass the Passkey: A Novel Attack Surface in Passwordless Authentication
  unit42.paloaltonetworks.com · Discuss

• FIPS 140-3 is not a security guarantee, and auditors know it
  808bits.com · Discuss

• libexpat now funded by the City of Munich for up to 6 months
  blog.hartwork.org · Discuss